Numeracy

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4 Aug 2025

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PISA testing begins: Australian students to inform global measure of skills

Behind every great athlete is a great mathematician

Top teen mathematicians raise the sports bar in IM2C

Australia lifts performance in Year 4 maths and science – but system equity and engagement challenges remain

How students performed in PISA’s 8 essential maths skills

Maths strengths and struggles identified in new PISA report

A new report by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) identifies how students achieved in core areas of mathematics viewed globally as key in preparing them for adult life.

Unlocking the power of learning assessments: A path to stronger foundational literacy and numeracy in the Asia-Pacific

Confidence, gender and mathematics in PISA

Year 4 results in global maths and science test the best ever

4 Dec 2024

Year 4 students hit new high in global assessment, despite pandemic

Australian year 4 students whose first years of schooling occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic have defied concerns about disrupted learning to achieve Australia’s best-ever result in an international maths and science assessment.

15 Oct 2024

Addressing the data and education gap in Timor-Leste

ACER is supporting Timor-Leste to improve education outcomes by building better national systems to monitor learning.

16 Sep 2024

From theory to reality: students witness the next level of problem solving

Experts advancing solutions for real world problems have been sharing their knowledge with Australia’s teenage top scorers in the International Mathematical Modeling Challenge (IM2C).

20 Aug 2024

Project-based learning in the 21st century classroom

ACER India provided technical support to the Sri Aurobindo Society to strengthen its Auro Project-Based Learning Initiative.

3 Jun 2024

Winners of the inaugural ACER Advance Awards for Schools

More than 900 Literacy and Numeracy competition entries were completed by students around Australia in Term 4 2023 and Term 1 2024.

21 May 2024

New PISA report links student experiences with performance in maths

Australian teenagers with higher levels of curiosity than others performed better in mathematics in the world’s largest assessment of 15-year-old students, a new report has shown.

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